"The very man who has argued you down,……" — C.S. Lewis
"The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said"
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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More Argued Quotes
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of…
— Richard Nelson Bolles
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Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting…
— George W. Bush
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use…
— Eric Alterman
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I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the…
— Alan Greenspan
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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press…
— John F. Kennedy
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The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have…
— Francis Crick
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not…
— Robert K. Merton
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